I baked some yummy, yummy lactation cookies recently. Yes they really were yummy and anyone can really eat them. These super yum cookies just happen to have healthy stuff in them that help us lactating people out.

All you gotta do is bake some oatmeal cookies and add a little flax-seed meal and brewer's yeast and you have a recipe for milk. Or I should say you have a recipe to go with some milk?

Hmmm, I guess it depends on how you look at it.

I was afraid the cookies wouldn't be good, so when it came time to add the chocolate chips I added a TON of them. Well to be honest I added the whole bag. You see, this was my first time making cookies from scratch (yes, I know that is bad). I was afraid I would screw something up and I was afraid that you'd be able to taste the flax-seed and brewer's yeast, so I loaded them with chocolate.

And they were good.

For added milk production boost, try adding some slithered almonds as almonds are great for milk production too.

I have made my recipe based off of two recipes that I've used...basically it's a combination with my added love for chocolate. This recipe gets you about 4(ish) dozens depending on how you big you make them.

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

4 tablespoons water

2 tablespoons flax seed meal

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 cups oats

1 bag chocolate chips

2 Hershey bars broken into chunks

2 tablespoons brewer's yeast (you can add a little more if you want)

Preheat oven to 350

Mix your flax seed meal with the water and leave it sit for a few minutes in a bowl

Beat your butter, sugar and brown sugar in a bowl

Add eggs to this mixture and then mix well

Add the flax seed mixture and the vanilla extract and beat well

In a separate bowl combine the salt, baking soda, flour and brewer's yeast (you can sift but I didn't)

Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mix

Stir in the oats and chocolate chips and chunks

Scoop onto baking sheet

Bake for about 11 minutes

Cool and enjoy!

There are lactation cookie recipes all over the internet so feel free to search out the one that works best for you.

Sasha is the owner and founder of The Mushy Mommy, a natural mother and baby boutique and The Mushy Mommy Village. She is a SAHM who works hard at living as minimal and unprocessed as possible, but never claims perfection. Her mission is to inspire, encourage, enlighten and empower mothers all over to feel good about their choices, to make healthy choices and to enjoy motherhood and all of its beauty and chaos.

Perhaps one of my favorite homemaking topics is always about grocery shopping and budgets! I don’t know why, but this conversation always inspires me to see how I can change my ways or it sometimes even makes me proud of being able to keep our grocery budget near the amount that we tend to.

Everyone has different ideas of what is a “good” grocery food budget and that is okay because every family has different needs and wants. Honestly, there’s no right or wrong answer here in terms of budgets and where to shop - but there’s always some handy tips to share with one another.

I have found that these tips (some that are widely known tips) really do help with sticking to a clear budget and without getting distracted by extras.

Let’s face it, motherhood isn’t easy. We often need all of the unicorn magic, fairy dust and rainbows to make it through each day. But since those things don’t really exist, I’ll just settle on some good oils, lots of prayers and a cheap glass of wine.

When it comes to oils and motherhood there are countless oils we can use for our day. Whether it’s oils for emotions, oils for sleep or even oils for our teething babies, there are many ways in which we can have a tool box of support for our day to day role as MOM.

So today I am going to highlight my top 10 oils that I insist every mother should have on hand. There are so many wonderful oils and several that I have left off here, but dang these are mostly just the oils that will help bring you some peace, sleep and sanity. And a little backup for all the in betweens.

I thought I would always be that mom…

You know, the mom who had kids that ALWAYS looked super put together and stylish. Maybe not always in the fanciest of clothes (because #bills), but definitely in the cutest clothes from hip boutiques and with beautiful bows and perfect hair.

And then life happened.

And by life, I really just mean I had three kids within 5 years. Which translates to a whole lot of chaos if we’re being real here.

There are days where we leave our house and I’m thinking to myself, “Damn I hope we don’t run into anyone we know.” Or I’m already mentally preparing myself to tell whatever human I run into the truth - these heathens demanded on dressing themselves and today I didn’t care because it was one less battle to win.

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